Farm Folks is an open-world co-op farming and life simulator game. Unleash your imagination, build, automate, and customize every detail of your farm. Grow crops, nurture animals, and befriend locals to cultivate the ultimate sim experience.
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After washing ashore on Softshoal Island, you are given a chance at a new life. A plot of land awaits your green thumb to transform it into a booming farm, and a new world beckons you to explore its secrets.
Farm Folks offers a delightful mix of RPG and farming mechanics, giving you the freedom to get lost in the world while you build a farm from the ground up. There are many friends to be made, many crops and animals to tend, and a whole island to discover. What are you waiting for?
It wouldn’t be much of a farming simulator without farming, would it? Farm Folks features the time-tested farming mechanic in which players can purchase or forage seeds and begin to grow their farm into a bountiful and rewarding resource.
it's our goal to introduce somewhere around 60 juicy crops for our players to rake in that sweet, sweet digital profit. Crops and other grow-ables will be divided into 4 categories - spring, summer, fall, and winter. This means certain crops can only be grown in specific times of the year, read more on farming below.
Animals are an important part of any world, giving the land life and personality. Plus, they're just dang cute! The animals and critters of Farm Folks are a big part of our game, and we want to make sure that the player feels a strong bond with their pets and livestock.
Otto, the local fisherman of Port Meridia, would call it a crime if you couldn't bait your rod and cast it to the blue in a place like this! Fishing is one of the most relaxing activities in Softshoal, and a popular pastime in Port Meridia thanks to the surrounding seas and rivers.
All crops need basic care, but they'll need special attention to produce the best yield. You'll need to learn which type of fertilizer and water each crop loves best. Some crops grant special bonuses to others around them, adding an element of strategy to crop composition and farm layout.
There’s beauty and intrigue to be found in every corner of Softshoal Island. It's a compelling place that calls the player ever further into its woodland groves, long beaches, and dangerous caves. As you explore, you’ll see things that you’ll never forget and experience adventures worth re-telling.
And where better to relay your stories of green-thumbed heroism than back in Port Meridia? This fair-sized town has plenty of places to kick back and enjoy a day away from the farm, but it’s also home to the many festivals that you don’t want to miss!
We’re excited to introduce you to our Devlog #2. Our team was working hard last month on implementing and improving fundamental systems that will support future core systems in-game and things are shaping up well!
Before we dive into development details, we have great news to share with you first:
We’re extremely excited to let you know that we’re launching a membership program similar to Patreon on the Crytivo website here. This will allow us to interact more with eager fans who want to be more heavily involved in the development process of Farm Folks. Fans who sign-up for the membership will gain access to day-to-day updates, including - but not limited to - work in progress materials, exclusive internal development updates, and closed polls that will influence our development.
We’re going to start with the following 3 membership roles - Explorer, VIP, and Legendairy. Each role will offer access to the unique content as follows:
Fans get updates on almost a daily basis. These updates will include early sketches, prototyping videos, and more! You will also have open communication with the developers on Discord. This is the highest tier.
Since you’re reading this and have probably been around the project for a while, we would love to offer you a complimentary lifelong VIP Membership. All you need to do is request your role on our Discord Server here by December 10th by typing, “!getRole.”
After December 10th, you’ll not be able to claim your membership if you didn’t back Farm Folks earlier. Make sure you claim your membership before that date and let your friends know as well!
And as a special thank you to all who have already backed the project via Kickstarter, Humble, or Crytivo, you’ll receive the highest current membership level, “Legendairy” for free, for evah! All you need to do is go to our Discord and tell our bot, Waffle, “!getRole” and the magic will happen!
We understand the frustrations you might’ve had waiting for updates on a game that you backed some time ago and, subsequently, felt let down by the previous team during their hardships. Our goal is to make all of the original backers feel special and reward them for their trust and support. We want to make you feel that backing Farm Folks was the best decision you ever made and, in response, we only ask for your kindness and continued support in development.
This membership program will help us scale our team up and hire more creatives to help us develop additional content for the game (if it works out, of course :D). We’re very committed to making Farm Folks an unforgettable experience and a little help will take us to where we need to be. Help us share this news with your friends and family! It will be fun to have your close ones around in our Discord to contribute and help us make a game that we all will love.
With all the improvements and enhancements Farm Folks has been going through, we think that it’s important to update to the main art that will reflect things that will be in the game:
Let us know in the comments what you think! There should be plenty of things to discover.
Our goal is to give you the ability to build the farm of your dreams. We would like to get our customization system in-game to the level of detail similar to Animal Crossing, Sims 4, and Paralives. Well, we can’t promise it’s not going to be even better.
As it stands right now, you’ll be able to customize the following things during the object placement or editing:
Lighting will play an important role in making things look natural and vibrant in Farm Folks. Last month, we spent some time developing a lighting system that will be used with indoor and outdoor objects.
We created a bunch of floor lamps that you’ll be able to place around your cozy home and customize them to your liking by choosing height, wood trim, and custom shade + pattern.
Translucent lamp shade fabric will cast tinted light that matches your chosen pattern colors in the environment.
Characters will have daily stamina that will deplete over time or by actions performed throughout the day. Without going to sleep on time, your character can pass out! To have a proper restful sleep, you’ll need to get into your cozy bed on time. Beds will have great customization options, including the ability to build bunk beds. Who’s going to sleep on top?
We added two types of tables (square and round) with additional sizing variations each. You can choose to place tablecloths, table runners, and customize them to your liking by choosing styles and patterns with custom colors. There are going to be plenty of cosmetic items that can be placed on even surfaces. Plates, glasses, napkins, etc. that will help you create cozy or festive environments at home.
Inspired by recent Animal Crossing updates, we decided to model some cute chairs for Farm Folks and yes! We included froggy chair!
Because why not?! We added a gazillion pillows as a part of the setup system that will allow players to place cosmetic items.
After modeling the main character, we were tasked to rig and skin our character properly to make animations work smoothly. This allowed us to finally have our base character in the game, however, we had some issues with the pants. As a result, our character is running around without pants for a while. Right now, the base character is using placeholder animations. We’re planning on reaching out to a motion capture studio that will record unique animations for us later on.
The world of Farm Folks will be massive in scale (though we’re not fully ready to talk about it, just yet) and it’s important for us to have an optimized foliage system that will help us make things pretty. We’ve developed a grass system that allows us to combine multiple styles together like great density with support for weather conditions such as wind, rain, and snow.
Grass is folded by both the character and objects, creating a very satisfying feeling. It makes you not want to stop running around for days!
We had to get back to our modular construction system since it’s been implemented in the form of a prototype for testing. You can really lose yourself building the farmhouse of your dreams. The construction system is very peaceful, intuitive, and satisfying. We’re quite happy with how it’s shaping up! We know some players prefer a non-granular construction system where they can place constructions as a whole without architecturing every bit and piece by themselves. Because of this, we’re planning to add a blueprint system down the road that will allow players to acquire whole construction pieces (i.e. rooms or even entire structures). We’re considering integrating all of these with Steam Workshop which would allow the community to share their creative buildings with each other.
In these upcoming months, we’re starting to work on a farming system that will allow us to create plots, plant crops, and more. Most of the things that we’re working on are carefully selected to allow us proper implementation of the systems into the game that will support scalability and offer creativity to our fans. In our next update, we will talk about animals and the products they produce, their needs, and social and environmental preference systems.
To help us keep our fans updated and engaged on Discord, we’re looking for a community manager to join us! We drafted a quick form with some requirements that you can fill out here if you’re interested.
We’ve been working hard to bring Farm Folks to life and we hope you’re equally excited about the game! Be sure to hit the like button and leave us your comment below.
-Your Crytivo Crew
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